Wichita eagle., 1887-09-15
Supposed to Have Been Drowned
The Northwestern Miller
Reports the
Minneapolis Flour Market Firm and
Healthy List of Other Mis-
cellaneOus News.
THE LAST DAY
OF the Distiller's Association Meeting
at Gin cinnati.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 14-The National
Distiller's Protective association finished It's
labors today and was banqueted by the
locat members tonight, 1t was resolved to
make collection Of $500 Immediately
from the wholesale dealers, and an eeual
sum from the distillers for immediate use
in Tennessee. The report of the committee
ON resolutions was adopted. 1t states the
associations side of the temperance issue
quite fully as follows:
Whereas, From many sources the men
engaged in the business of producing and
dealing in wines and spirits are charged by
the enemies Of the industries as In league
with the worst elements of our civilization
and as inimical to the good morals and the
welfare of society; and
Whereas, Such sentiments of fanatical
interference and misrepresentation could
not excel where an enlightened and truth
seeking public sentiment prevailed.
Resolved, That it is the first duty of this
association to use its highest efforts through
the press, the forum and by the dissemina-
ton of printed information, for the cor
rect education of public opinion on the
subject of the liquor trade in its relation to
the individual, TO the state and to the
society.
Resolved, That while we favor temper
ance, we are opposed to prohibition, gen.
eral or local, whether sought to be as &C.
complished by direct statutes or by exhor-
bitant and prescriptive license and we are
opposed to it because we believe it to be
wrong in principal, impossible for en-
forcement and promotive of the worst
forms of deceit and hypocrisy.
Resolved, That we endorse the tax or IL
cense system, and favor state enactments
imposing a reasonable license that will not
encourage monopoly nor amount to prohi-
bition, and we hold that the granting of
tax permits nor licenses should be based
upon the good character of the grantee
and not made conditional upon; them on
payment of a stipulated sum Of money,
and when practicable under the consti.u-
lions of the various states, we advocate the
forfeiture of the tax permits or licenses as
a condition inseparable from the keeping
of law breaking or disorderly premises.
Resolved, That we view with regret the
efforts of men In high public position to
drag the wine and spirit business into the
arena of politics, and protest against the
evil to our country of making political
issues of questions which should be deter
mined alone for the welfare of the CON-
munity by the unbiased wisdom of nom
partisan craftsmanship.
Resolved, That the triumphs OF our
cause in the recent conflicts of Michigan
and Texas and the methods by which
those victories were achieved have taught
us that we can best resist the attacks Of
our enemies by an open and straight for
ward discussion of the fallacy of prohibit
ton and by direct appeal to the intelli-
gence and common sense of American
manhood
Resolved, That we esteem the business
In which we are engaged as honorable and
as honest as any other mercantile pursuit
and we pledge ourselves to do all those
things which honest and honorable men
may do to secure for ourselves the pro-
lection to which the vast capital and far
reaching dependencies of our designs take